Chilean Miners Rescued Amid Global Celebrations

I've been watching this and it is quite inspiring.

This is truly the most amazing, and as you say, inspiring, news I've seen in a long time.

Yup indeed a good advert for engineers and engineering too (if only we could prove the original problem was due to accountants or politicians)
Nice to have some good news for a change.
I'd love to be in a Chilean bar tonight!

Del
_{Maybe they could use the mine to store unwanted politicians/bankers/England footballers/"celebrities" etc. It could be a new TV series. "I'm a banker, get me out of here"}

Think about the global altruism demonstrated in the literal world-wide focus on this happy cirucmstance. It seems like alturism an order of magnitude or three more than the "selfish gene" would "allow" in a purely adaptive sense. What do you think?

I think you are quite wrong.